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The two have been together for 17 years. They had a civil commitment ceremony that didn't carry any legal force in 1999 but had longed hoped to formally tie the knot. The way was cleared last year, when New York legalized same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama lifted the "Don't ask, don't tell," policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.

The brides both live in New Jersey and would have preferred to have the wedding there, but the state doesn't allow gay marriage.

"We just couldn't wait any longer," Fulton told The Associated Press in a phone interview Saturday.

Cadet Chapel, she said, was a more-than-adequate second choice.

"It has a tremendous history, and it is beautiful. That's where I first heard and said the cadet prayer," Fulton said, referring to the invocation that says, "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half-truth when the whole can be won."

The ceremony will be the second same-sex wedding at West Point. Last weekend, two of Fulton's friends, a young lieutenant and her partner, got married in another campus landmark, the small Old Cadet Chapel in West Point's cemetery.

Fulton has campaigned against the ban on gays in the military as a board member of two groups representing gay and lesbian servicemen and servicewomen. She was part of the first West Point class to include women.

Fulton said the only hassle involved in arranging her ceremony came when she was initially told that none of West Point's chaplains were authorized by their denominations to perform same-sex weddings.

Luckily, she said, they were able to call on a friend, Army Chaplain Col. J. Wesley Smith. He is the senior Army chaplain at Dover Air Force Base, where he presides over the solemn ceremonies held when the bodies of soldiers killed in action oversees return to U.S. soil.

The couple planned on adding other military trappings to their wedding, including a tradition called the saber arch, where officers or cadets hold their swords aloft over the newlyweds as they emerge from the church.

Readers' Comments (68)

The only thing that is "disgusting" about this is that a loving couple had to wait 17 years to be able to have their relationship legally recognized, and that the delay was due to prejudice and hatred.

#2. Disgusting that those that aren't perverts are no longer disgusted by perversion. The globalizers have succeeded in dumbing down, slumming down, scumming down America. Nowadays, otherwise normal people think freaks are cool; hence, even the seemingly "normal" are sick and twisted. What passes for normal is weird.

Irondem, I will gladly accept the premise that such as you and I DO NOT live in the same America. I wish you and your degenerate friends and family would leave. Barring that, I will fight you degenerates by all necessary means. We will not surrender our home to you misfits, freaks, statist Luciferians.

Why? if two people love each other what is the problem.. I do think though marriages are a religious institution and we should allow each religion decide if they want to marry gays or not. I think the government should only have the ability to give civil unions. Especially the benefits part - these people are just as committed to each other and should enjoy the same legal rights.

To those who insist on calling those who abhore homosexualizm, I fear no one. To believe that deviates should have no place in proper society should appeal to moral persons. Since you are a democrat irondem, I tend to think you are one of those who accused Gov. Romney of having multiple wives. I would like to know why you think having sex with a person of the same sex is more acceptable than having sex with multiple partners of the opposite sex. Maybe you can come up with a phobic term describing fear of persons having sex with multiple wives.

Irondem, I will gladly accept the premise that such as you and I DO NOT live in the same America. I wish you and your degenerate friends and family would leave. Barring that, I will fight you degenerates by all necessary means. We will not surrender our home to you misfits, freaks, statist Luciferians.

Happy couple? It's more about where this Luciferian ceremony is occurring: the West Point Chapel.

Well, that's the way it always goes: when it starts exerting and publicizing itself, scum will always insist on desecrating the most sacred of places. Have the lick-n-stickers or the f****p*****s been able to slim their way into the National Cathedral in Dee Cee yet?

St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City--that's what they have their evil hearts set on soiling.

Irondem, you could give a f*** less what Jesus might do. If you think sexual perversion is okay with Jesus, you are another one of these New-Age Christians that foul the air of the Church. Or maybe you're a member of one of those Satanic outfits fronting itself as a Christian Church.